February 2016 BCBusiness 65 illustration: Gary CleMent; Paul DuCHart
Urban Development Institute
Annual Reception
the urban Development institute's 2015 December reception attracted more than
400 guests at the industry's largest event of the season
A b o u t T o w n W i t h P a u l D u c h a r t
Survey Says...
Our unscientic poll of random
partygoers at the bash
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel Vancouver, December 3, 2015
Up a Bit
25%
Up a lot
45%
aBoUt
tHE
SaME
30%
(Left to right) 1. Anne McMullin, uDi Pacific region president & Ceo; and David Porte, uDi chair and Porte Development Corp.
president 2. Andrea Camp, Mosaic Homes sVP sales; Diana McMeekin, artemis Marketing Group president; and Neil Chrystal, uDi
vice-chair at large and Polygon Homes president & Ceo 3. Sandra O'Connell, real estate writer; and Ben Taylor, Wesgroup
Properties sales director 4. Suzanne Anton, minister of justice & attorney general of b.C.; and Mitchell Gropper, Farris, Vaughan,
Wills & Murphy llP partner 5. Robert Carbonneau, Coast Capital savings director commercial real estate; Mark Brewster, Canadian
Mortgage strategies & investments principal; and Sandra Cawley, uDi director & burgess Cawley sullvan & associates partner
6. Kevin Riederer, read Jones Christoffersen ltd. structural project engineer; James Bussey, Formwerks architectural founder; and
Gilbert Raynard, read Jones Christoffersen ltd. principal
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T h i s m o n T h s ' q u e s T i o n :
What is the real estate
market prognosis for 2016?
